Table of Contents - HUNAGI
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A Unique Organization<br />
Offering Unique Benefits<br />
Geospatial technologies play an important role in business, government, and research<br />
applications and workflows. However, the benefits <strong>of</strong> using these technologies are <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
limited by the inability to effectively share information. To address this problem,<br />
government, private sector, and academic organizations use the OGC consensus process<br />
to cooperatively define, develop, test, document, validate and approve interface and<br />
encoding standards and best practices that solve interoperability problems.<br />
With more than 400 member organizations worldwide, the Open Geospatial Consortium<br />
(OGC) is the leading organization for developing and maintaining international<br />
geospatial and location standards. The OGC is a not-for-pr<strong>of</strong>it voluntary consensus<br />
standards organization whose standards enable interoperability and seamless integration<br />
<strong>of</strong> location information, geoprocessing s<strong>of</strong>tware, and geospatial services.<br />
Benefits for Technology and Content Providers<br />
Technology and content providers collaborate in the OGC because they recognize that<br />
lack <strong>of</strong> interoperability is a bottleneck that slows market expansion. They know that<br />
interoperability enabled by open standards positions them to both compete more<br />
effectively in the marketplace and to seek new market opportunities.<br />
In the OGC, technology and content provider members:<br />
• Position themselves early to influence definition <strong>of</strong> new open standards.<br />
• Reduce costs through cooperative standards development with other OGC<br />
members.<br />
• Shorten time to market by using OGC standards rather than custom interfaces.<br />
• Develop standards that help them enter new markets and find new customers<br />
because <strong>of</strong> "plug and play".<br />
• Forum for discussing industry issues and solving shared problems.<br />
• Customer relationships and business partnerships.<br />
• Deliver solutions more quickly and at lower cost.<br />
• Develop standards that help mobilize a range <strong>of</strong> products across open interfaces,<br />
rather than performing resource intensive custom integration.<br />
• Provide precise solutions to meet specific needs, solutions that plug-and-play.<br />
Nadine Alameh<br />
Director, Interoperability Programs<br />
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)<br />
nalameh@opengeospatial.org<br />
Phone: +703 501 3074
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